Medieval Multiplied: the ivory mirror case
This webpage accompanies the exhibition, Medieval Multiplied: A Gothic Ivory and its Reproductions, held at The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Gallery from 19 October 2024 till 16 February 2025.
On this page you will find a new digital model of a  from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. You can compare this model with the original ivory, shown below, and with reproductions of it in other media.
Assault on the Castle of Love
- Unknown artists, Paris, France, carved with ‘The Assault on the Castle of Love’, c. 1325–50. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- James Basire the Younger (1769–1822), in Archaeologia, the journal of the Society of Antiquaries, London, 1812. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ
- Elkington and Co., London, of the V&A’s ivory mirror case, 1855. From the collection of A. W. Franks, now in The Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
- Unidentified artist with the initials ‘CA’ or ‘AC’, (left hand side) in William Maskell, Ivories, ancient & mediaeval, London, 1875. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
- Francis Bedford (1815–1894), in John Charles Robinson, The Treasury of Ornamental Art, London, probably 1857. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
- Isabel Agnes Cowper (1826–1911), in William Maskell, Description of the ivories, ancient & mediaeval, in the South Kensington Museum, London, 1872. The Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
